It's bit strange to suddenly write about him. But probably, it's also not entirely odd. Recently I was reading a book called, " 25 Communist Freedom Fighters". It has a chapter on Rahul Sankrityayan. It also mentioned on how Mr Sankrityayan was expelled from the CPI(M) and how after an apology he was brought back. But not surprising, given utterly strange degrees of freedom the CPIM excercises when it comes to expulsions. So that's how Mr Sankrityayan, happened again.
First time, I met him, was in a train, on it's way to Delhi. I was listening to a story about a certain Mr Rahul Sankrityayan who had travelled to Tibet and recovered lost manuscripts and how he got them on the back of 22 mules. How he went to Tibet? He just got up one day and left. Story of a classic "parivrajaka". The narrator got down at Patna. He said he was a follower of Mr Sankrityayan. A month back, I was in Calcutta. Off to College Street, that is better than Google (at times) and then "A journey from the Volga to Ganga" happened.
About the AuthorArijit Sen Arijit Sen reports from Northeast India. He was at NDTV before joining CNN-IBN in 2005. Arijit began journalism in December 1999 with The Edit page of...Read Morefirst published:August 10, 2006, 16:22 ISTlast updated:August 10, 2006, 16:22 IST
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This blog is about a (re)meeting with Rahul Sankrityayan. Mr Sankrityayan was a widely travelled scholar and a Marxist theoretician. Only book, written by him, that I have read is a translation, "A journey from the Volga to the Ganga". It's a briliant fictional account of migration from the steppes of Eurasia to the Indian subcontinent. It starts around 6000 BC and stretches till 1942, the year Gandhi gives a call for the Quit India movement.
It's bit strange to suddenly write about him. But probably, it's also not entirely odd. Recently I was reading a book called, " 25 Communist Freedom Fighters". It has a chapter on Rahul Sankrityayan. It also mentioned on how Mr Sankrityayan was expelled from the CPI(M) and how after an apology he was brought back. But not surprising, given utterly strange degrees of freedom the CPIM excercises when it comes to expulsions. So that's how Mr Sankrityayan, happened again.
First time, I met him, was in a train, on it's way to Delhi. I was listening to a story about a certain Mr Rahul Sankrityayan who had travelled to Tibet and recovered lost manuscripts and how he got them on the back of 22 mules. How he went to Tibet? He just got up one day and left. Story of a classic "parivrajaka". The narrator got down at Patna. He said he was a follower of Mr Sankrityayan. A month back, I was in Calcutta. Off to College Street, that is better than Google (at times) and then "A journey from the Volga to Ganga" happened.
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